The document discusses the concept of red teaming, which involves challenging an organization's assumptions and plans through rigorous analysis to identify vulnerabilities and risks. It outlines a structured approach to decision-making using critical thinking techniques and emphasizes the importance of clearly defining objectives and testing hypotheses. Additionally, it introduces a pre-mortem strategy for risk assessment by projecting potential project failures and implementing preventive measures.

1. Experience of Benefits,
BENEFIT OF
EXPERIENCE
R e d T e a m

2. Experience of Benefits,
The Red Team
A red team is a team that is formed with the objective of
subjecting an organisation’s plans, programmes, ideas
and assumptions to rigorous analysis and challenge. Red
teaming is the work performed by the red team in
identifying and assessing, inter alia, assumptions,
alternative options, vulnerabilities, limitations and risks
for that organisation.
Red Teaming Guide (2nd Edition)
The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre

3. Experience of Benefits,
Red Team framework

4. Experience of Benefits,
Structure and creativity
Red teaming is the independent application of a range of
structured, creative and critical thinking techniques to
assist the end user make a better informed decision or
produce a more robust product.
Red Teaming Guide (2nd Edition)
The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre

5. Experience of Benefits,
Six dumb questions that deserve smart answers
1.What does ‘good’ look like round here?
2.What’s the point of this change?
3.Who is it really for?
4.What do they actually want?
5.How do we get this done?
6.What makes this option better than Plan B?

6. Experience of Benefits,
1. Set the scene
2. Choose to change
3. First filter - test the Hypothesis
4. Turn the Hypothesis into an
Objective
5. Optimise the value of the Objective
6. Second filter - test the Objective
7. Plan to realise the Ends
8. Third filter - test the Objective
Idea Test

7. Experience of Benefits,
Means – what you use
Ways – what you do
Ends – What you want
Benefits Dependency

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9. Experience of Benefits,
Rational nets of cause - effect

10. Experience of Benefits,
What does
good look
like?
Six Dumb Questions again
Who’s it for?
What do they
want?
What’s the
point?
How do
we do
this?
What makes this
the best choice?

11. Experience of Benefits,
This is manageable

12. Experience of Benefits,
This is not

13. Experience of Benefits,
Pre-Mortem
A way to assess your risks
• Set the scene, “It’s a year from now, we ran the project and
it all went wrong”.
• Describe how and why it went wrong
• See what you can do now to prevent this happening.
Original idea by Gary Klein, quoted in Thinking Fast and Slow,
Daniel Kahneman

14. Experience of Benefits,
Pre-Mortem
Staff
shortage
crisis
Target
doubled
Too little
reduction,
no savings
Objective
missed

15. Experience of Benefits,
Comments?

16. Experience of Benefits,
BENEFIT OF
EXPERIENCE
R e d T e a m
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